Multitude Of Doors

Doors are interesting objects.

Even (especially?!) when they are of the metaphorical variety.

We can open the door and invite information, ideas, feedback, and connection with people. We can welcome the energy that comes into our space when the door is open. We can enjoy the distractions and the lack of structure and focus. We may leave a door ajar to make it easier for opportunities to enter.

And, then there are the times where it can be helpful to close the door. In the middle of a crowd, open-plan office, or bustling coffee shop we can choose to shut out the noise and move into deep focus mode. We can stop analysing, researching, investigating, ideating trusting that we are ready to move forward. We can celebrate the progress made in these moments.

Of course, there is always an ‘and’. We could call it Schrodinger’s doors perhaps 😉 - open and closed doors existing in tandem as we navigate our work and life.

We remain constantly open to some things, and some doors never open. Other doors are rotating, and we find ourselves going through them over and over again. We can spend a long time searching for the key to unlock certain doors. Some we move through without thought nor care.

Accepting that our work and lives contain these multitudes of doors might well be the first step in discerning which to open, close, or travel through next.